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Rockefeller money, the laboratory, and medicine in Edinburgh, 1919-1930 : new science in an old country

Title
Rockefeller money, the laboratory, and medicine in Edinburgh, 1919-1930 : new science in an old country / Christopher Lawrence.
Author
Lawrence, Christopher, 1947-
Publication
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.

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ix, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"In the first half of the twentieth century, reformers attempted to use the knowledge and practices of the laboratory sciences to transform medicine radically. Change was to be effected through medicine's major institutions: hospitals were to be turned into businesses and united to university-based medical schools. American ideas and money were major movers of these reforms. The Rockefeller Foundation supported these changes worldwide. Reform, however, was not always welcomed. In Britain many old hospitals and medical schools stood by their educational and healing traditions. Further, American ideals were often seen as part of a larger transatlantic threat to British ways of life. In Edinburgh, targeted by reformers as an important centre for training doctors for the Empire, reform was resisted on the grounds that the city had sound methods of education and patient care matured over time. This resistance was part of an anxiety about a wholesale invasion by American culture that was seen to be destroying Edinburgh's cherished values and traditions. These latter in turn were seen to stem from a distinct Scottish way of life. This book examines this culture clash through attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
Uniform Title
Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-349) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : medical cultures -- 2. Medical revolutions -- 3. The rockefeller foundation and the culture of British medicine -- 4. The organization and ethos of Edinburgh medicine -- 5. Edinburgh, London, and North America -- 6. The departments of surgery and medicine -- 7. A hospital laboratory -- 8. A university laboratory in a hospital -- 9. Bench and bedside -- 10. Conclusion : modern times.
ISBN
1580461956 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005010469
OCLC
  • ocm59148295
  • SCSB-5202544
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries